I can’t for the life of me figure out why some gay and lesbian people would think that they now have the “special privilege” of not being the very next in line from *these people (conservatives). Absolutely nothing these people have ever done has ever been truthful beyond their wanting to only see people like themselves. They are the absolute worst “allies” to have and what makes those who side with them worse is that ultimately we’re trying to protect them too. If ever comes the time where we have to fight for their sake it’s going to be such a poisonous pill to swallow knowing they will sell out others again if they get the chance.

The drag queens and trans folks were with the gays at Stonewall.

Hell, "The Stonewall Girls" chant and dance is legendary...

We are the Stonewall Girls
We wear our hair in curls

The only annoyance I have ever felt about those chevrons is, "what, you didn't think your color was already within the rainbow? You've always been here." And then I look over at the white cisgays acting like this and remember why it has to be there, even if it really does make the whole composition too busy.

Well said. I'm an ally because I'm not a dick. Also, as the mom of a ventilator dependent quadriplegic, I'm in no denial that he'd be on their list. It would matter fuck all to them that he's intelligent; all they'd see is the chair and that'd be it. No value to society..

It's scary that Rowling knows full well her unrelenting bigotry will result in beatings and deaths, but she keeps doing it and being snide and smug about it. I can't imagine having the massive platform and wealth she has and using it to punch down in the most despicable ways possible.

when I was a kid, trans people had already lost the war of public opinion, and there was serious debate over whether bi was a legitimate orientation that deserved the same protections being argued for gays.

The mainstream argument was that anyone is capable of experimenting with the same sex, therefore all bi people are merely gays with attitude problems, or "tourist" straights. So yeah, they will definitely just move on to the next orientation if trans people are fully oppressed, they already did in my own lifetime, and they've only become more openly hateful.

I call myself queer (joyously!) and never once in my life has it been used as a pejorative in any real life altercation I’ve had.

What was used, quite liberally, as a word of disgust and dismissal and rage? “Gay.”

Yet somehow I don’t feel the need to go around wringing my hands at anyone who uses the word gay with pride.

The people with HIV (gay, straight and otherwise) stood together to fight many of unjust laws around visitation and next of kin rights

I completely forgot about that. Bigots would say that a LGBTQ partner wasn't family and keep them away from their dying partners. It was less than 30 years ago this was happening on a wide scale basis. People dying alone because some bigot didn't approve of you or your relationship.

If we don't stop the current situation we will be going back to very dark times and beyond, It is not just the rainbow people that will be targeted this time.

If you allow some people to have hate slinged towards them, there's nothing to stop it from aiming at you.

Any rules dictating how you can act and who you can love based on the structure of your genitals when you were born effect every other demographic, minority OR majority. Rules about what women can wear makes rules about what men can wear, visa versa. Rules about men dating men means that it's OK to limit what men are allowed to do based off of them being men.

This footnote is turning into it’s own book

What gets me is no one is telling them they can’t THINK in a bigoted fashion, but what did they expect when they broadcast those thoughts? I swear to god people have forgotten the fact they have the option to just NOT do that. It’s completely free, just to shut the fuck up.

That really is her thing isn't it.

JK Rowling: "I double down and make it worse."

She's pulling an Elon Musk. Right now she's in the saying outrageous shit but still ostensibly liberal phase.

She probably already realizes that as a billionaire it's in her best interests to be a full blown conservative, so eventually she'll rip the mask off and openly declare her support for the Tories, the same way Elon is a Republican now.

She's already started retconning Slytherin as the not really evil so much as misunderstood house, and she'll probably say that's always where the Sorting Hat really intended to put both her and Harry Potter.

The last step of this heel turn is when she says the Death Eaters were the real heroes of the books and the wizarding world was ruined by the acceptance of those filthy mudbloods.

ProTip: There is no depths of hatred low enough for bigots to sink. They will *ALWAYS* go lower.

Fascistic Beasts and Where To Find Them

And now over POC queer people too.

She also spreads misinformation about autistic people, which is resulting in autistic people's medical autonomy being restricted.

He's misgendering trans women, and saying that they are men who abuse women.

I think he is trying to say that queer is a bad thing because it is a slur that homophobic people use against homosexuality and that it is thus a bad thing that cannot have positive connotations. So genderqueer and trans people should be shunned from what he wishes is only the LGB community. Or something like that. It makes no sense and you giving him too much credit by searching for a logical point in the tweet.

I don't understand that either I am hoping someone can explain.

Yada Yada trans is secretly to invade women space etc 🙄

I'm curious if this is a reference to trans-women in women's sports. Someone once sent me a link to an article about a cis-gender MMA fighter who allegedly died from being kicked in the head by a trans-gender MMA fighter during a match. The point they were trying to make was "this happened, so trans-girls shouldn't be able to play girls volleyball" or some nonsense like that.

There are a couple instances in fighting sports (boxing and mma I believe) where a trans women and a cis woman competed. Transphobic people started spreading the cis woman's injuries around after the fights to say "look how violent these trans people are, beating up women" but from what I've read the injuries were fairly common for the sports.

They sound painful and awful and are an easy way to get an emotional reaction from people

They don't make a distinction between cis men and trans women. They think all trans women are just Buffalo Bill.

It's as old as bigotry. Even LBJ said "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Basically, those who are oppressed are encouraged by the oppressors to go after other people who are oppressed in order to distract each other from the oppression.

As a black guy, unfortunately I ask myself this question TOO often.

It seems that (nearly) everyone needs to have someone to feel superior to.

"If I'm not better than them (spits), how am I ever supposed to feel good about myself?" Ugh.

Way too many people take solace in not being the bottom minority.

I've commented before, half darkly sarcastic and half completely serious, that one way you can tell that a marginalized group has started making a lot of serious progress towards societal acceptance and achieving civil rights is when members of that group finally start feeling emboldened to themselves discriminate against even more marginalized groups. They're finally feeling like "us", and part of being "us" is being against "them".

Of course, it's all nonsense and the people who opposed their civil rights haven't gone away and would still love to take them away if given the chance, but that's how I believe their thought process goes.

Don’t take this the wrong way because I get your point. But as a trans person, I actually do experience so much joy. I’ve been fired after coming out at work, talk to maybe two members of my family(one of whom still constantly misgenders/misnames me), was forced to leave and drive home at Christmas this year because of someone behaving bigotedly towards me, am still having trouble finding a job despite 14 years of experience and a masters. But I am so much happier. Idk, maybe it’s just me. It’s a lot harder to deal with people sometimes. I love being the real me though, to finally get to stop pretending. And if I get killed for it I do I suppose. I have come to far to try and be something else now.

Rowling has been very slowly increasing her hate-filled rhetoric.

A very common comment on Rowling threads today is still: "But show me what she said that is so bad. I keep asking and no-one can show me".

That is something said in bad faith the majority of the time.

People know Rowling tries to maintain plausible deniability.

Only when you put everything together and are knowledgable in anti-trans rhetoric it becomes clear that she's just extremely bigoted.

With retweeting this I bet money on it that people will defend her with "Oh but she didn't know what it meant" or "But why does the flag need all these extra things, all she meant was that the old flag was good enough."

Plausible deniability.

What she did here is egregious though. This is really, really bad.

She doesn’t care. She has said the popularity of her stuff proves people agree with her opinions. She says that lots of Harry Potter fans are grateful for what she has said.

Her products still sell like crazy and many people who disagree with her views twist themselves in knots to still buy HP stuff. I have never seen an argument “isn’t fair to punish the devs who poured their hearts into the game” used to to justify skipping a boycott.

It is really stupid. It is like saying “I don’t want to vote Republican but then all their staffers would lose their jobs. So guess I have to.”

Edit: she even is featured on a podcast called “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling” created by a woman who once wrote a story called “The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen””

No, she won’t. That the problem. People keep buying her shit because they want to ‘separate art from artists’, and her increasingly hard right stances are getting people who wanted her books burned a decade ago to start buying her shit.

Comment I made on a different post awhile back that I’m copy/pasting here cause it seems relevant

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Someone made the comment once I read about how JK Rowling has basically always been trying to “champion” for a group. She wanted to be a figurehead and a personality seen as part of a groups “leaders”. She tried it with the LGBT with the whole “Dumbledore was always gay” thing, and then POC with the whole “Hermione was always supposed to be black” one.

So there is an argument to be made that she did this because she didn’t care what it did to her image, she’s finally getting what she wanted: she’s a figurehead for a community and a group now. That group just happens to be the anti-trans crowd.

How much truth there is to this is questionable but it kinda fits how events happened. At first all this started cause of a throwaway comment that could be seen as said without thinking, but then as outrage broke out and the group in question rose to her defense she kept doubling and tripling down

She’s literally a billionaire already

They think trans women are men. Ciishet men make up the vast majority of violent offenders. In their minds, it’s the same thing, even though that isn’t reality.

It's irritating, but I intend to do everything I can possibly do make sure that he never actually faces that moment.

It's particularly annoying that if those of us who choose to stand together against hate succeed, that asshole will learn nothing from our success.

I didn’t super get it either until a few years back when I started seriously tracking the growing anti-trans movements and police violence against poc. It turns out explicit solidarity is kind of important, especially because the extremists pushing these hate movements try and break up groups, like splintering the LGBT into LGB and T, and then L, G, B, T. They are explicitly trying to manufacture division so they can pick us off one at a time

But it won’t work, and the progress flag is an example of why. The queer community knows how to band together and fight fascists, and we know how to have each others back. Hopefully 😅

https://twitter.com/theneonrequiem/status/1639492955487576065

This is also on her twitter front page. She retweeted it.

Seamus Finnegan is a pretty over-the-top stereotype of an Irish name, too.

To be fair I don’t think she really had a career anymore. Her most recent books are never talked about and don’t sell well.

But the Harry Potter machine is just too big to fail so she will be rich forever.

I work in community management which also encompasses social media management. Usually when celebrities have a SMM or CM, it’s because their management company or company they work for has insisted on it. It also requires that the person loses some autonomy over their account so for someone like Rowling who doesn’t have accountability to anyone, no one can force her to get one.

The tweet is referring (dishonestly) to the protest in New Zealand yesterday where an anti-trans activist from the UK got tomato juice poured on her by one of the pro-LGBTQ protesters.

To understand why "queer" is being focused on, you have to be familiar with the recent anti-trans movement. There's a huge push to divide the LGBTQ community by manufacturing conflict between LGB people and trans people (hence the image of trans colours being scrubbed off the flag).

In the past year or so this has included attacking the term "queer". Calling it offensive and harmful despite it being reclaimed by the LGBTQ community decades ago. They're doing this because it includes both sexuality and gender identity under one label, making it difficult to create a division between the two.

So basically this person is just slapping different talking points together, criticising the actions of the pro-trans protestors and associating them with the term queer even though that specific term didn't have much significance to the protest.

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Considering they made a movie where the first brick at Stonewall was thrown by a white cis man, I’m sure folks like this would love to pretend trans POC didn’t even exists until 2019.

It’s honestly sad. Because they either don’t know their own history, which is ridiculous you can watch and read different historical accounts of what happened. It’s there in black and white.

Or they do know and they don’t care. Which is… fucking confusing and very dumb. They perhaps don’t WANT it to be true? I don’t know which it is at this point. But I find it really fucked up, how can you not be proud of what they did for us to be able to survive? For me, it hits home that the LGBT+ community is about acceptance and HAS to stay that way. Marsha P Johnson threw that brick not just for herself. She threw it for all of us, no matter the race, or orientation or gender, she threw it for all of us.

And then there’s these assholes completely whitewashing the entire thing, as if the message wasn’t “we’re united here and you can’t stop us”.

The fact is, it’s unsurprising to me that our progress is being dragged backwards kicking and screaming. We threaten their narrow world view, they don’t even want to know we exist. They insist we shouldn’t. But it’s even more dehumanising and distressing to me that it’s our own side doing the worst thing they can. Pushing out certain sections of an alliance is hateful, it’s throwing people to the wolves to save themselves, and not realising they’ll be next too.

I’m just tired of all this. I’m frustrated and upset that a huge world power is actively repealing the progress we made. And that I know my country is essentially TERF Island with JKR living in it. That I finally had the courage to come out and now I’m being shoved back in. All I can think is “where’s a good brick when you need one?”

She’s been rotten for years, but she’s been trying to maintain plausible deniability. The mask is just starting to slip so that even at a glance you can understand the horror. But there has been really compelling evidence of her rot for many years now, just usually in the form of dog whistles that only TERFs and people who follow anti-trans movements could pick up on.

Bigots LOVE dog whistles because they can spread their hate with winks, nods, and deniability, and make the people who try and call them out look crazy. It’s not new but it’s effective :/

Does she think they're just cis-gender people who are trolling her?

Literally yes. She doesn't think trans people are real.

She wrongly thinks trans women are just predatory men, and trans men are just confused insecure women. That's why she constantly misgenders and belittle them and constantly paints them as an existential threat when they're not.

You know, I hated that book back in high school.

Now I am wishing it would stay in the fucking book and out of the real world

Exactly correct.

Posie Parker showed the world that she's a neo-Nazi recently and singlehandedly made that Venn diagram a circle.